Special needs education, is the practice of educating students with special needs in a way that addresses their individual differences and needs. Special education is the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures and other interventions designed to help learners with special needs achieve a higher level of personal self-sufficiency.
Occupational therapy focuses on helping children with physical, sensory or cognitive disability become as independent as possible in all areas of their lives. It is a type of health care that helps to solve the problems that interfere with a person’s ability to do the things that are important for them in everyday life.
Sensory-based therapies involve activities that are believed to organize the sensory system by providing vestibular, proprioceptive, auditory, and tactile inputs. Brushes, swings, balls, and other specially designed therapeutic or recreational equipment are used to provide these inputs.
Speech therapy is an intervention service that focuses on improving a child’s speech and ability to understand and express language. Speech therapy helps in developing language, communication, and pragmatic language skills.
The Counselling Service is to address personal or emotional problems that get in the way of realising your full academic and personal potential.
Family therapy offers families a way to develop or maintain a healthy, functional family. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health. Counselling can help all kinds of issues from divorce, sibling relationships to feuds.
Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses the creative process of making art to improve a person’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. The creative process involved in expressing one’s self artistically can help people to resolve issues as well as develop and manage their behaviors and feelings, reduce stress, and improve self-esteem and awareness.
Early intervention services are a range of targeted services to help young children who have developmental delays or specific health conditions. The program includes speech therapy, physical therapy, and other types of services based on the needs of the child and family.
Functional skills are defined as skills that can be used every day, in different environments. Functional skills focus on different areas such as home, family, self-help skills, employment, recreation, community involvement, health, and functional academics. Functional academics are important for children with disabilities, who may not be able to learn age and grade appropriate academics.
Handwriting program provides developmentally appropriate, multisensory strategies for early writing. These activities and manipulatives appeal to all learning styles and provide a hands-on approach to handwriting. The program promotes easy learning for every letter, print and cursive.
Behavior modification is a treatment approach, based on the principles of operant conditioning, that replaces undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement . It is used to treat a variety of problems in children such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), phobias, enuresis (bed-wetting), generalized anxiety disorder , and separation anxiety disorder.
These programs and services adapt content, teaching methodology and delivery instruction to meet the appropriate needs of each child.